Poet Affinities
Every poet has a thematic centre of gravity averaged from their critiqued poems. Here we use that to find the poets whose work rhymes with a given writer — often in surprising ways.
Poets whose work rhymes most with Lord Byron
Percy Bysshe Shelley
4 August 1792–8 July 1822 (~30)
83% affinity
Shared: social
bio 77% · poems 91%
Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
82% affinity
bio 75% · poems 90%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
81% affinity
Shared: romantic, life
bio 75% · poems 90%
John Wilmot
1 April 1647–26 July 1680 (~33)
80% affinity
Shared: sexual
bio 75% · poems 85%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
79% affinity
Shared: social
bio 70% · poems 89%
William Butler Yeats
13 June 1865–28 January 1939 (~74)
79% affinity
Shared: history
bio 71% · poems 89%
John Donne
1572–31 March 1631 (~59)
79% affinity
Shared: marriage
bio 72% · poems 87%
Algernon Charles Swinburne
5 April 1837–10 April 1909 (~72)
79% affinity
bio 72% · poems 87%
Ernest Dowson
2 August 1867–23 February 1900 (~33)
78% affinity
Shared: romantic, life
bio 69% · poems 90%
Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
78% affinity
Shared: life, love
bio 70% · poems 89%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
78% affinity
Shared: romantic
bio 70% · poems 88%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
78% affinity
Shared: romantic
bio 69% · poems 90%